Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.--H.L. Mencken

One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.--Robert Kennedy

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant threat winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."--Isaac Asimov

Democracy if four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.--Ambrose Bierce

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.--Winston S. Churchill

The main problem in any democracy is that the crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage and whip their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy -- then go back to the office and sell every one of the poor bastards than the tube for a nickel apiece.--Hunter S. Thompson